Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mark of a foot; a footprint; track.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A footprint; a track or vestige.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
footprint (an impression made by a foot)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
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Examples
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Poitiers, dedicated to the queen of Clothaire I. -- who afterwards took the veil, and was distinguished for her piety -- there is shown on a white marble slab a well-defined footmark, which is called "Le pas de
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Curious, because, so far as one can trace any footmark in this mud-stained corner, one would say it was a more shapely sole.
Chennai 2010
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This is a sad day in talking about democracy, but it's worse as for the footmark we will leave in that part of the world.
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The only trace was a little footmark under her bedroom window.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Like every year that has come before, it has left an indelible mark, a permanent footmark on our perception of reality as we try to comprehend the events that have taken place, and desperately try to organize these events into a scenario that we can understand, one that makes sense.
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There were trodden places, bent and broken blades of the coarse grass, and ever and again the sufficient intimation of a footmark.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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‘At our school,’ said A., ‘we had a ghost’s footmark on the staircase.
A School Story by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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Dr Chinston went to the window and looked out; there were no marks of feet on the flower bed, where it was so soft that anyone standing on it would have left a footmark behind.
Madame Midas 2003
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It pretty nearly pulled all the legs off me, and to this hour I cannot tell you if it is best to put your foot into a footmark — a young pond, I mean — about the size of the bottom of a Madeira work arm-chair, or whether you should poise yourself on the rim of the same, and stride forward to its other bank boldly and hopefully.
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The Sergeant pointed to the boot in the footmark, without saying
The Moonstone 2003
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